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Hey y'all. I have seen 3 pictures on Facebook about the 1956 Little League team. I don't know their names but the pictures are really great. The pics I've seen are posted by Davroc Sports Photographer. I went to their site and there are lots of pictures.

08/16/26 03:21 PM

#9211

I don't want to say it is hot here, but dayem...and with the heat index factored in, it feels like 117°. And the next few days are going to be a bit hotter. This heat keeps us dragging ourselves around like the zombies in a Michael Jackson video...

08/16/26 05:14 PM

#9212

John Landess

Gee, Fred, that sounds hot!!

Here in the Great Land right now, it is 61 at my little house. However it is rainy and blowing about 45 to 50. I don't have the 'wind chill factor' chart handy but it is chilly.

But for the fishermen, no problem as the salmon finally started running..

Could be worse, my old neighbors on the Big Island are getting 'tons' of rain they said.

Bill, I can barely hear you!!

08/17/26 11:36 AM

#9213

1956 Little League World Series Winners 70th Celebration

Sunday August 16, 2026

Left to Right: Dewey Johnson (author of '56 Champ book) Players: Jimmy Valdez, Ferrell Dunham, Tom Jordon, and friend.

Paula, Thanks for posting the pictures!

08/17/26 11:37 AM

#9214

1956 Little League World Series Winners 70th Reunion

Saturday August 15, 2026

Left to Right: Jimmy Valdez, Tom Jordon, David Sherrod, Ferrell Dunham

(Lions Hondo Baseball Park on South Sunset)

Paula, Thank you for posting the pictures!!!

08/17/26 02:27 PM

#9215

Patrick Riley

Hot! Tell me more ... I know not of this thing called "hot"! I hate to brag but I will anyway ...

We live on five acres high in the cool Rocky Mountains a few miles from Cascade Colorado. If you're standing on my front porch ringing the bell, you're at 7,860 feet in elevation. Pikes Peak foothills are my backyard. We're 4.4 miles from the summit (14,115 feet in elevation) as the crow flies but 19.6 miles (and 156 turns) away by road (where the annual Pikes Peak Hill Climb auto race is held each July).

My temperature right now (2:28pm on August 17th) is 73 cool degrees Fahrenheit (~23 degrees Celsius). Of course, it would be more than fair for you to ask me about our winters ... burrrrrr!

Here's a satellite view:

08/18/26 08:29 AM

#9216

Fred and Pat,

There is a way you two could work out a deal trading that hot for cool and vise versa.

08/18/26 09:47 AM

#9217

Does anyone remember this man?

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08/18/26 12:51 PM

#9218

The high for today was predicted at 107°. This was taken about 12:30P, still a long ways to go before we reach the high for today. With the heat index or "feels like" temp added on, we are looking at 115° right now. I think John L has the right idea, plus he gets some tasty salmon in the deal...

08/18/26 01:13 PM

#9219

Fred,

Have you compared the digital unit reading againt a regular thermometer like the one below? And compared it with the National Weather Station temps?

The reason I ask, is my digital thermometer reads between 4 to 5 degrees higher than the actual "outside" temperature! On the other hand, my digital unit reads "inside" temps within a degree or so. I wish there was a way to calibrate the digiital unit's "outside" temp reading to match the actual temp. KInda like how ya adjust the setting on the barometer for your area.

08/18/26 03:23 PM

#9220

Sherry Hester (Trasp)

Speaking of Montgomery Wards, I worked for them from
1981-1987. One year 1986 at the Christmas season they
came back out with the following book, I bet most people
did not know where it originated. The 50th~Golden Anniversary!

Here is "The Rest of the Story!"

SORRY. I Could not turn them!!

Here ya go Sherry! ~ Da Shadow..

08/18/26 05:33 PM

#9221

Sherry, I had no idea about the origins of Rudolph. Thanks for sharing.

And Rex, thanks for putting names to the pictures I posted.

08/18/26 06:12 PM

#9222

Sherry,

The book "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" would make a wonderful gift for grandchildren.

Good ole Monkey Wards came up with the Ruidolph story in 1939. Remember the sound of those wooden floors at Wards that "creaked" under your shoes each time you took a step?

Thanks for posting!

08/18/26 10:11 PM

#9223

Sherry Hester (Trasp)

Rex, I bought 6 of these books and read and
I gave them to my grandchildren as they
came along. My 1st Grandson was born in 1984.
I did keep this one for my self.
Yes I do remember the wood squeaky floors
here in Roswell. Although I worked in
Abilene, Tx and Santa Fe, NM and we had
tile floors!

Thank the Shadow for fixing the Pictures for me!!

08/20/26 09:03 AM

#9224

Remember the "air tubes" used by Montgomery Ward to send cash and return the change? The sales clerk would place the cash and sales slip inside a metal tube and sent to an office on the second floor. When you looked up, you could see the metal pneumatic air tubes running up the wall and along the high ceiling to an upstair office. The transaction only took a few seconds sending and receiving both ways. Most drive through banks are using this same system invented over two hundred years ago.

After a bit o' research, the pneumatic (compressed air or vacuum) system was originally conceived by Scottish engineer William Murdoch in 1799. It was D. Brown who patented the in-store "Cash Carrier" system in July 1875. Wanamaker's in Philadelphia became the first department store to install an indoor pneumatic cash tube network in 1880.

08/20/26 01:36 PM

#9225

I was involved in Little League as a player, as an asst. coach, a coach, a pround grandpa watching 2 of his grandsons, one of whom was voted MVP of the season his senior year in high school, and finally a huge fan to this day.

Trying to watch as much of the LLWS as I can. At some point, this song will be played again, and and I will get goose bumps listening to it.

08/20/26 01:48 PM

#9226

Anthony's on Main Street had those "air tubes" also. I was always fascinated by them when I was shopping with my mom. Back then it was very mysterious.

08/20/26 06:38 PM

#9227

Paula,

I noticed some customers at Wards had a worried look when the returned change took a little to long. With the look of..."wonder if we'll get the rest of our money back or not"?

08/21/26 05:27 PM

#9228

https://www.aol.com/articles/golden-retriever-lost-her-spunk-114907000.html?guccounter=1

Duck Story!

Helps Golden Retriever Find Joy Again

Barley, a 7-year-old golden retriever on Long Island, started having seizures two years ago. The medication worked, but it came with a cost. "She just lost her spunk," owner Tori Cannarelli said. “She lost her goldeness”.

Then Louie the duck showed up. The Cannarellis found the duckling after he hatched at a local elementary school. He was supposed to go to the family's garden center. Instead, Tori brought him home, and Louie and Barley quickly formed a bond. They wrestle, chase each other around the yard, and relax side by side. Louie even insists on eating from a dog bowl.

The family noticed something remarkable: Barley started wagging her tail again. "She started smiling again," Tori said. "She started having personality again." Their son Cameron has his own theory for what changed: Barley wanted to be friends with Louie, and that helped “stretch her joy” "

Click video link

08/22/26 09:28 AM

#9229

Rex, love the story about the dog and the duck.

08/22/26 10:42 AM

#9230

Fred,

Yep! Better than the 1970 movie Love Story...

08/22/26 07:30 PM

#9231

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/secret-tracking-device-placed-in-rare-book-ends-up-in-amazon-processing-facility-destroying-books-to-train-ai-models-is-all-the-vegas-warehouse-does

Would love to have a library of old vintage books like this in my home !!

However, the plot thickens...

"A secret tracking device was placed in a "rare book" that wound up in an Amazon processing facility in Las Vegas — destroying books to train AI models..."

What is your opinion of books destroyed by these these scanning methods?

See article...

08/23/26 08:38 AM

#9232